Tuesday Tales

It was another gorgeous fall day here in Maine. The wind was blowing a bit so I could see the leaves drifting to the ground. The horses love this kind of weather, not hot, no flies and a nice breeze. They will be going back to the stable in a week or so (Waaaaa!) as we are getting ready to go to Florida on our family vacation. The grand kids are looking forward to it and so am I as long as Mom is doing okay.

Things have been a bit rough the last few days. She has developed two blood clots in the leg that was operated on. This will put her a week behind on her physical therapy which is discouraging as she was hoping to be home in two weeks. It will be at least three now unfortunately. We are still on our schedule where someone is with her most of the time during the day. Dad goes early morning, I go after that, my sister goes on her one o'clock lunch hour, my SIL in the afternoon, Dad back at dinner time and Hubby or I after dinner. She has a delightful roommate and everyone there has been very nice. The only complaint I have and I know this is a universal complaint is the time it takes the staff to get to the rooms when the patient rings for them. Today I talked with the charge nurse and was told that they respond within two to three minutes. NOT! I am there, I know how long it takes and sometimes it's 15 to 20 minutes. When you have to use the rest room that can be a long 15 to 20 minutes. We aren't allowed to help her as we don't know how to correctly do it and could cause further injury. I don't mean to be critical but I just want my Mom to have good care.

I got back three of the pictures that were taken here last week by Sparkling Moments Photography. I made some kind of mistake on the big order and it didn't go through so I am going to have to order them again. I probably just didn't push the Order button. Sigh...... Anyhow I thought these of the grands came out good. This first one is just the part of the picture that would fit in my scanner.

I love this one of T with her favorite pony Kipper. I bought the pink lead rope to match her shirt.
D was sitting on the pasture fence. At first he was afraid he would fall off but then got the hang of it. I love a weathered fence.

Sunday night we hosted a hayride for our Awana Sparkies from our church. This is the 5-7 year olds and they love coming to the farm each year.

We had about 40 all together counting the leaders. We had a fire going in the fire pit and had cookies and apple juice for a snack. The little girl in the light pink jacket kept her nose plugged the whole time! lol! She said that horses STINK!

Nick was quite interested in all the excitement and attention.

Next Sunday night we have the older group of Truth and Training kids coming. As they are older we will be making smores in the fire pit along with the hay ride and meeting the ponies. Buddy used to love it when the kids came to visit. He was always thinking maybe someone had a treat for him! :o)

What's your costume going to be this year for Halloween? I like to dress up for when the trick or treaters come by. Haven't decided yet what I'm going to be but here are some suggestions.